Tweaking Ubuntu 17.10 To Try To Run Like Clear Linux

Tweaking Ubuntu 17.10 To Try To Run Like Clear Linux: Even with the overhead of having both KPTI and Retpoline kernel support in place, our recent Linux distribution benchmarks have shown Intel's Clear Linux generally outperforming the more popular distributions. But if applying some basic performance tweaks, can Ubuntu 17.10 perform like Clear Linux? Here are some benchmarks looking at a few factors.